For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Friendship demands attention.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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